August 20, 2013
Leave it out. UK workers are skipping their break from the office
The problem with the UK holiday season is that you never know where you are with your contacts. While one chunk of the population is away on leave, the other half is beavering away, and carry on sending out tons of emails, which the other half are forced to plough through when they return to the office. Maybe we need to follow the example of the Italian office furniture manufacturer which emails out an annual reminder during the last week of July that its offices will be shut for the whole of August, when traditionally, most of Italy takes a break. Not so the Brits, where, according to new research, even workers entitled to a break, are reluctant to take time off. More →
August 1, 2013
Predicting the future of the office means looking at what is happening now
by Charles Marks • Comment, Facilities management, Furniture, Workplace, Workplace design
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